Gearing for self-moving vehicles.



Patented Got. I5, |90l. F. G. WEBB.

GERING FUR SELF MVING VEHICLES.

(Application med Dec. 7, 1900.)

QLL

NITBD Srnrns FRANK e. WEBB, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GEARING FOR SELIF=WOVING VEHICLES.

SPECIFECATXON forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,657, dated October 15, 1901.

Application filed December '7, 1900. Serial No. 89,095. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK GARDINIER WEBB, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Gearing for Self-Moving Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The Object of this invention is to provide a mechanism through which the power to drive the vehicle is conveyed from the engine to the axle and Wheels of the running-gear and at the same time be capable of adjusting itself to the. action of the springs that carry the body on the running-gear.

The accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, show the invention, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation. Fig. 2 is an en largement of portion through line 2 2. Fig. 3 is an enlargement of G. Fig. 4 is a section through line 4L 4..

Like letters refer to like parts.

In Fig. 1 the wheels, axle, springs, and body of the vehicle are shown, with the machinery for driving.

A is the axle of the driving-wheels.

B is the body of the vehicle.

S S are springs supporting the body on the axles.

F is a frame supporting and connecting the axle and the driving-gear. 0n the body B is fixed an engine E, driving the bevel-wheel E', which meshes into bevel-wheel E2. E2 is supported and has its bearing in E3 from body B.

C is a shaft, a portion of which is squared or splined and tted into a corresponding opening in bevel-wheel E2, so as to move in the direction of its length in E2. At the lower end of C is a boss with forked arms D, connected by links D2 to similar forked arms D',

the terminal portions of D and D' being spherical and the links having corresponding spherical.cavities.v The forked arm D' is conL nected by shaft C' to gimbal G and by shaft through bearing in F to bevel gear-wheel H, which gears into wheel H' on axle A. The action of this mechanism is to adjust itself to the varying distances between the body and the running-gear by the free action of the links up and down on the arms D .and D' for the ordinary effect of inequalities of the roadway and by the sliding of shaft C in the gear E2 when more movement is necessary. The action of the gimbal G is to allow for the swinging of the body on the running-gear in every direction from the perpendicular, While the power is conveyed through it and the other mechanism from the engine to the axles and wheels.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent isl. In a driving-gear for self-1noving vehicles, the combination Of the driving gearwheel E2, the shaft C arranged to slide in the wheel, the arms D, D fixed to shaft C, links D2, D2-connecting arms D, D to arms D', D' on shaft 0'; combined to act for greater or lesser action of springs S, S, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a driving-gear for self-moving vehicles, the combination of the upright shafts C and C', the fixed arms D, D on shaft C and D', D' on shaft C', the arms being connected by links that are free to move in any direction on the arms, substantially as shown for the purpose described.

v FRANK G. WEBB.

Witnesses:

T. W. WARNKE, J. K. MAIson. 

